Secondary Sources for English 351                                    Keen

 

Empathy and the Novel

 

Reserve Book List: go to Leyburn Library Circulation desk

 

Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983. See index for his thoughts on sympathy.

PN3451 .B6 1961

 

Delgado, Richard. The Coming Race War?  And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America after Affirmative Action and Welfare. NYU P, 1996. 4-36. Critical Legal Studies approach.

      E185.615 .D44 1996

 

Eisenberg, Nancy and Janet Strayer, eds. Empathy and its Development. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.  Science Library  BF575.E55 E453 1987

 

—. “Empathy and Sympathy” Handbook of Emotions. Eds. Michael Lewis and Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones. New York: Guilford P, 2000,  677-92.  Science Library BF561 .H35 2000

 

Feagin, Susan L. Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. 83-142. Philosophical approach. PN98.R38 F43 1996

 

Fish, Stanley. “Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics” in Tompkins, Jane, ed. Reader-Response Criticism, 70-100.

 

Fogle,  R. H. and Jeffrey Barnouw. “Empathy and Sympathy.” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Preminger and Brogran. NY: MJF Books, 1993. 331-2. Literary approach (applying to poetry).

      PN1021 .N39 1993 Library Use Only: a reference book.

 

Goldman, Alvin I. Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science. Focus Series. Boulder, CO: Westview P, 1993. 63-97, 140-152. Philosophy and cognitive science.

B945.G593 P55 1993

 

Harold, James. “Empathy with Fictions.” British Journal of Aesthetics 40:3 (July 2000): 340-55. Philosophical approach. Look this up in Annie by title: we have access to the on-line version of this journal.

 

Holland, Norman. The Dynamics of Literary Response. NY: Oxford UP, 1968. Pschoanalytic approach. Chapter 10, Character and Identification, 262-80; Chapter 11, Affect, 281-307. See also excerpt from Holland, “Unity   Identity    Text    Self” I, Tompkins, ed., Reader-Response Criticism, 118-33.

      PN49 .H64

 

Hume, David. (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed.with an analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon P; New York: Oxford UP, 1978. 2d ed., with text rev. and variant readings by P. H. Nidditch. B1485 1978

 

Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978. See his comments on Ingarden. See also the excerpt from Iser, “The Reading Process,” in Tompkins, ed., Reader-Response Criticism, 50-69.

      PN83 .I813

 

Konarzewski, Krzysztof. “Empathy and Protest: Two Roots of Heroic Altruism.” Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism. Ed. Pearl M. Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner et al. NY: NYU P, 1992. 22-9. Moral approach: what makes people altruistic?

      D810.J4 E477 1992

 

Neil, Alex. “Empathy and (Film) Fiction” in Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies. Eds. David Bordwell and Noël Carroll. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996. 175-194. PN 1994 . P6565 1996.

 

Nell, Victor. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988. A psychologist’s analysis of what we are doing when we read for pleasure.

Z1003 .N426 1988

 

Oliner, Samuel P. and Pearl M.  The Altruistic Personality : Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. NY: Free P, 1988.

D810.J4 O418 1988

 

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. NY: Knopf, 1993.

      PN761 .S28 1993

 

Sherman, Nancy. “Empathy and Imagination.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XXII (1998). Ed. Peter French and Howard Wettstein. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1998. 82-119. B105.E46 P48 1998

 

Smith. Adam. (1759). The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie, Oxford: Clarendon P; New York: Oxford UP, 1976. BJ1005 .S6 1976

 

Thiongo, Ngugi wa.  Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey/Heinemann, 1986. “The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance.”

      PL8010 .N48 1986

 

Tompkins, Jane, ed. Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980. Essays by Iser, Fish, Holland, and Tompkins especially useful.

      PN98.R38 R4

 

Warhol, Robyn. Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989. Chapters 2 and 3 on “engaging strategies.”

PR878.F45 W37 1989

 

Wimsatt, W. K (and Monroe Beardsley). “The Affective Fallacy.” The Verbal Icon:  Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. Lexington, KY: U of Kentucky P,  1954.

PN1031 .W517